Hi I'm looking for some advice. After a pretty dismal upbringing, I went through a huge trauma in my late teens. This led me to having some kind of mental breakdown, I dropped out of school, got in with the wrong crowd and had a lot of anger.
In the period of a year I clocked up several arrests, the most recent of which resulted in my serving 6 months in a YOI institute. All of these convictions were drink related disorders and I am utterly ashamed of each and every one of them.
I do however belive that my time in prison was my saviour, it gave me routine, time out and clarity to look at my life and see other options.
Since my release I have moved on, moved away and worked extremely hard to put the past behind me, I now have great friends and my own family.
I have studyed and gone from having no qualifications at all to putting myself through university and achieving great grades, during employment I have worked my way up to managerial roles and I now run my own business.
All of my convictions are spent within the UK and took place nearly 17 years ago. The UK laws and government have allowed me to put the past behind me and become the person I always wanted to be.
I really want to visit the USA and have contacted their agency to make an appointment to get a visa. However, since making the appointment I have been advised that they will not consider my offences spent and that because there were multiple arrests I would be unsuitable for a visa.
I know someone who was in a similar situation but his dad took him to the USA as soon as he was released and has been visiting ever since, he advised me that I should just lose my passport, get a new one with a new number and visit as a tourist.
I have worked hard to provide for my family and really want them to be able to have all the things i never had, I would love to take them on holiday to Disneyworld while they are young.
I would value your comments and advice. Thanks.
http://www.travellerspoint.com/forum.cfm?thread=22639
Cheers,
Terry
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